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The demo videos from the older course version were indeed removed, as they were no longer relevant to the updated course content (they used to focus on minikube and single node clusters, whereas the new course version focuses on kubeadm and multi-node clusters), but also because they were outdated (they used Kubernetes v1.6 and older). We will be adding more updates in the future and we will consider areas that could benefit from videos or audios.

For those who were in the middle of the course, could you please indicate which chapter(s)/part(s) should be reviewed after the update? I had reached chapter 11 and wonder which of the previous chapters/parts are worth being reviewed after the update.

We actually suggest that you review the entire content, as the approach in the updated material is different. In the old version, the course was making use of single node clusters deployed locally on your machine with Minikube. The new version makes use of multi-node clusters, use of kubeadm, and it's done in the cloud. Not to mention that the course content and lab materials use Kubernetes v1.9.1, instead of v1.6 and older - a lot has changed.

On slide 8.9 - Local Proxy for Development, the URLs for accessing the services are missing a /proxy at the end. Otherwise you're just getting the API object for the service, and not actually proxying to the service.

The lab pdfs (both the single file available for download in ch 1, and the individual pdfs available throughout the course) are dated. The newest course version (which is the one that I posted about on 2.16.2018) shows version 2018-02-15 on these lab pdfs. One other major detail regarding this particular course version is the fact that all content is now updated to use Kubernetes v1.9.1 (while the old version used Kubernetes v1.6 and v1.7).

In “7.5. Deployments”, I'm not sure Deployments should be explained by comparing them to ReplicationControllers as ReplicationControllers were not mentioned before. Also the API group for deployments is now apps/v1, not extensions/v1beta1 any more. This slide seems to be a reminiscence of the past (old version of the course) ;-)